The southerly caught the tree and tipped it. It fell with a crash, pinning a large brush-tailed possum to the ground.

2005, Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Life of Marsupials, page 229:

There are 22 species in the family, the commonest being the brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula (Fig. 7.5d, Plates 12 and 13), in Australia and the northern common cuscus, Phalanger orientalis, in New Guinea.